Carriage-cover



(No Model.)

H H. FRIOK.

CARRIAGE GOVER. I No. 297,'780. Patented- A 312 29, 1884.

u the following is a description.

Figure 1 represents a side View of my invention disposed for use. Fig. 2 is a perspective' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY H. FRIGK, OF FRICKS, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARRAIGVE-COVER.

SPECIPICATION forming'part of Letters Patent No. 297,'780, dated April 29, 1884.

Application filed October 22, 1893. (No model.) 4

Be it known that I, HENRY H. FRICK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fricks, in the county of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carriage-Covers, of which view of the cover, and Fig. 3 is a View of the cover when raised or reefed up.

My nvention relates to earriage-covers for inclosing the entire carriage and protecting the same from dust.

It relates more particularly to that form of cover which is made iu the shape of a square tent open at the bottom and Suspended from the top by cords and pulleys, by which the cover may be raised from off the carriage.

My invention consists in such peculiar con-' structin and arrangement of parts as adapt the device to more convenientuse, to more compact storage,- as well as secure greater simplcity and economy of constructionm In the drawings, A represents the floor of the carriage-house or stable, and C is the cover, which is made of any suitable material-such as cotton-cloth-of a more or less square shape. B B B B are four ropes, which connect with four weights, F F F F,-at the bottom of the four corners of the cover, thence extendup through passages formed at the Vertical angles or corners to the top 'of the cover, and then pass around pulleys D, secured to the joists or i eeiling of the stable. All these ropes converge at one corner to a multiple-sheaved pulley, so that they may all be equally drawn when raising the cover. In raising the cover the draft *on the ropes raises the weights, and` these, rising, lift the four curtains or sides of 40 the cover, which latter folds in horizontal plaits by reason of the fact that the ropes are embedded in the hems or seams at the corners.

I am aware that a cover having a rigid rect angular frame at both top and bottom and a seriesof cords and pulleys for raising it, has been patented; but my iuvention differs therefrom in material points, and possesses correspondingly important advantages in respect to adaptability for vehicles of Varying forms or dimensious for convenience of management, and in compactness for storage and transportation, also ,in respect to reduced' weight and cost.

What I claim isr The combination, With the hoisting-ropes B and theindependent weights F, attached there to, of the carriage-cover C, formed of thin flexble material, and having at its vertical angles passagcs for said ropes, through which they are rove, all as shown and described, to operate as specified.

HENRY H. FRICK. 

